OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Impact’ for longitudinal social science research: reflecting on paths forward	13
The many faces of education within life course studies, changing data collection methods, and a protocol for data linkage and model specification to more holistically improve health and well-being in	11
The career history of Chinese entrepreneurs and their life outcomes: a life history study using sequence analysis	10
The trend of the quality of cause-of-death data and its association with socio-economic indicators in Serbia in the period 2005–19	8
Exploring the effects of socio-economic inequalities on health and disability in Northern Irish adolescents: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal study	8
Adolescent male friendships 28 years later: adult criminal offences and domestic/intimate partner violence	8
What future are we creating?	7
Neighbourhood socioeconomic disparities in immunohaematologic risk in a paediatric analytic cohort	7
Can life events predict first-time suicide attempts? A nationwide longitudinal study	6
Exploring the reasons for labour market gender inequality a year into the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from the UK cohort studies	6
Middle-aged adults’ career trajectories and later-life financial security: evidence from Korea	5
The legacy of John Bynner	5
Does substance use play a role in gender differences in residential independence and returns to the parental home?	5
Divergent trajectories: three dimensions of child poverty during the Great Recession in Ireland	4
Short- and long-distance home-leaving and home-returning: exploring the role of life course transitions	4
The intersection of career aspirations and family planning among women in Lagos State: a qualitative analysis	4
Regional differences in initial labour market conditions and dynamics in lifetime income trajectories	4
Work and fertility in Taiwan: how do women’s and men’s career sequences associate with fertility outcomes?	4
Reviewer Acknowledgements	4
New generations of respondents: assessing the representativity of the HILDA Survey’s child sample	3
Churn in later adulthood? A gendered life course approach using short-term panel data from the US Current Population Survey	3
Predicting the stability of early employment with its timing and childhood social and health-related predictors: a mixture Markov model approach	3
Inequalities in children’s skills on primary school entry in Ireland and Scotland: do home learning environment and early childhood childcare explain these differences?	3
Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development	2
Life at the intersections	2

An evaluation of self-reported material well-being using latent Markov models with covariates	2
The SLLS in uncertain times: an opportunity to develop an impactful and responsive society. A reply to ‘Studying social change in human lives: a conversation’ by Richard Settersten et al	2
Social care in childhood and adult outcomes: double whammy for minority children?	2
Social isolation and cognitive functioning trajectories from midlife to later life in four high- and middle-income countries	2
January 2025 editorial: don’t look away	2
An Australian perspective on opportunities to innovate and evolve impact in cohort studies: a reply to ‘Re-considering “impact” for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approa	2
A glossary for social-to-biological research	2
Creating our legacy	2
Income inequality in later years: occupational trajectories or initial social characteristics?	2
Data quality and response distributions in a mixed-mode survey	2
The long-term effects of school education on further education: a longitudinal view on motivation and behaviour in youth and adulthood	2
Social inequalities in Irish children’s cognitive and mental health during secondary school transition: the role of the home learning environment	2
Long-term trajectories of community integration after spinal cord injury in a Mediterranean setting: identification, characterisation and trajectory predictors	2
The early origins of socioeconomic inequalities in inflammation: a scoping review and recommendations for life course and longitudinal studies	1
Dreaming of ‘post-conflict’ lives	1
The OHC penalty in the UK: maternal experience and child development	1
Normalising sequence lengths using the relative duration of episodes: an application to doctoral trajectories in Germany	1
Mediation of risk factors for high blood pressure in four racial and ethnic populations	1
Do parents’ socioeconomic resources moderate the association between genotype and cognitive skills among children with diverse genetic ancestries?	1
Places, times and the structure of lives: best practices for comparative life course research	1
Diversity of employment biographies and prospects of middle-aged welfare recipients	1
Life course trajectories of affective symptoms and their early life predictors	1
Sequencing, trajectories and patterns	1
Counterurbanisation and life course nexus in post-pandemic migration literature	1
Comparison of two approaches in multichannel sequence analysis using the Swiss Household Panel	1
Placing context in longitudinal research	1
A reply to ‘Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development’ by Thomas O’Toole et al	1
How do grandparents’ and parents’ educational attainments influence parents’ educational expectations for children?	1
Explaining disparities in cognitive functioning: a test of competing hypotheses	1
The impact and influence of longitudinal studies in the UK: a reply to ‘Re-considering “impact” for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approaches to theorising and measuring	1
The impact of marital histories on late-life loneliness and social participation: a US–China comparison	1
Charting well-being over adulthood into pandemic times: a longitudinal perspective	1
Intergenerational financial support and mental health of men and women: a comparative analysis across social welfare policy contexts in Europe	1
The effect of childhood socioeconomic status on adult self-rated health by age and race	1
Determinants of participation in a longitudinal survey during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of a low-infection country	1
Natural hazards and life course consequences in a time of pandemic	0
Sequence analysis for large databases	0
The J-shaped evolution of subjective wellbeing over the life course in rural China	0
Social biological research: special issue contributions and next steps	0
The impact of childhood and adulthood stressors on later-life cognitive function: evaluating birth cohort differences	0
Families, finances and status	0
Education, health indicators and fertility outcomes: a longitudinal analysis of couples in Britain	0
Changes in sibling similarity in education among Finnish cohorts born in 1950–89: the contribution of paternal and maternal education	0
Relative differences in parenting time and fertility intention: evidence from China Family Panel Studies	0
Early school leaving in Spain: a longitudinal analysis by gender	0
Navigating the minority grief paradox: racial-ethnic differences on parental death, social ties and early-midlife psychological distress in the United States	0
Birth weight effects on cognitive and non-cognitive development in early childhood: evidence from twins data	0
Trajectory of performing gender norms and its impacts on psychosocial health outcomes among Taiwanese adolescents	0
Exploring the social power of Christmas: a prospective qualitative study of assigning meaning to Christmas along the life course	0
Work trajectory and depressive symptoms among older adults in rural China: a sequence analysis approach	0

The ‘lifeworld’ of health and disease and the design of public health interventions	0
Adaptations to a cohort study in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from Growing Up in Ireland	0
Perceived discrimination in the workplace and mental health from early adulthood to midlife	0
A ‘double disadvantage’: neurodevelopmental profile and poverty confer synergistic risk of youth justice involvement	0
Linked lives: intergenerational transmission of labour-market pathways between parent dyads and children	0
Impact of New Zealand teenagers’ fertility intentions on childbearing	0
Work history and functional limitations in later life under institutional change: economic reform and work sequences in China	0
Socio-economic differences in remote schoolwork during the COVID-19 pandemic: a trend analysis of the 2020 and 2021 school-closure periods using the UK Understanding Society data	0
Work-family trajectories and poverty duration and severity in German working-age households	0
A reply to ‘Re-considering “impact” for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approaches to theorising and measuring the influence of cohort studies’ by Bridger Staatz et al	0
Incongruence between parental and adolescent educational aspirations hinders academic attainment	0
Revisiting longitudinal qualitative studies in social work: considerations for design and methodological insights	0
Korean mothers’ career aspirations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative study	0
A dynamic perspective on the evolution of perceived stress levels in Switzerland: drivers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	0
Employing a longitudinal study design in a post-conflict zone: strategies and lessons learned from the field	0
John Bynner obituary: to a pioneer of social research using comparative longitudinal data (28 April 1938 to 22 August 2023)	0
Age at arrival and integration outcomes of refugee youth and emerging adults: a longitudinal study	0
Complex families in the United Kingdom: mapping children’s diverse family pathways and their correlates from birth to age ten	0
Quality of life, sodium intake and cardiorespiratory fitness in heart failure: a longitudinal study	0
Life is anything but static	0
A narrative review of teen mothers’ long-term outcomes: what birth cohort studies tell us	0
Life course socioeconomic determinants of multimorbidity in later life: longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study	0
Non-employment, gender norms and the risk of couple separation in eastern and western Germany	0
Developmental relationships between socio-economic disadvantage and mental health across the first 30 years of life	0
The importance of context	0
Ruptured school trajectories: understanding the impact of COVID-19 on school dropout, socio-emotional and academic learning using a longitudinal design	0
Life course development following childhood adversity: methods and findings from the Christchurch Health and Development Study	0
Association between timing of motherhood and prospective cardiovascular biomarker risk factors: a twin study	0
A reply to ‘Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development’ by Thomas O’Toole et al	0
Not participating in education, employment or training (NEET): hope to mitigate new social risks in the UK?	0
The school-to-work transition for young people who experience custody	0
Growing Up in Québec: the experience of a pilot study	0
Association of white blood cell count-to-mean platelet volume ratio with the risk of fatal stroke occurrence in older Chinese	0
SHARE Corona Surveys: study profile	0
Interrupted education and functional limitations among the People’s Republic of China (PRC) cohorts	0
Corrigendum to Editorial, Vol 15, Issue 4 (October 2024)	0
Re-considering ‘impact’ for longitudinal social science research: towards more scientific approaches to theorising and measuring the influence of cohort studies	0
A study protocol for community implementation of a new mental health monitoring system spanning early childhood to young adulthood	0
Social-biological transitions research: review of progress and development – commentary authors’ reply to debate contributions	0
Longitudinal association between social participation and trajectories of life satisfaction in late middle-aged Korean adults with physical disabilities	0
Social differentials in the partnership trajectories of childless women in India	0
Developmental Perspectives on Transitions at Age 60: Individuals Navigating Across the Lifespan (TRAILS) – latest data collection in a longitudinal JYLS study	0
Maternal partnership status and women’s health in the United States: a cohort comparison study of NLSY79 and NLSY97	0
A reply to ‘Social-to-biological transitions research: review of progress and development’ by Thomas O’Toole et al	0
Work, work, work, work and work	0
Parental and family determinants of the Flynn effect	0
The life course – not a straight line!	0
The long shadow	0
Like mama always said: family socio-economic status, maternal attitudes and leader role occupancy in adulthood	0
Socio-economic gradients in pupils’ self-efficacy: evidence, evolution and main drivers during the primary school years in France	0
Studying social change in human lives: a conversation	0
A data-driven approach to understanding non-response and restoring sample representativeness in the UK Next Steps cohort	0